Promoting the Machobane farming system: An interview with Letla Mosenene, an advisor to farmer innovators in Lesotho

Letla Mosenene is currently a Technical Advisor for the Namibian Finland Forestry Programme for Participatory Integrated Forestry Management. She works mainly in the fields of community-based natural resource management and capacity building (training), with a mandate to help refine approaches in these areas. At the time of the interview she was working for Helvetas, Lesotho, an NGO involved in various community-based development activities. She was interviewed by Gudrun Schwilch, WOCAT assistant for database development, publications, and coordination at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), in May 2001. Helvetas Lesotho promotes MFS as an innovative form of sustainable management of natural resources, allowing farmers to achieve food security and poverty alleviation with very little resources